if you through a Linux disk in, you can copy the restore file. Usually the restore files are small enough to where you can just keep it there and install linux next to it.
Chris... On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Manny <[email protected]> wrote: > Restore file? > > That I know of HP's use a restore partition. It's usually a hidden > partition, so it won't show up within windows file manager. > > You can see it with gParted or some other partitioning tool. It'll > have a weird name with some numbers, and usually takes up about 10Gb's > on a Vista system. > > Be careful with automated installs. You'll want to do "manual > partitioning" and unhide the partition so you can add it to the grub > menu. Just name it "**WARNING*** WILL DESTROY YOUR DATA" or something > to that nature, as this will wipe the other partitions usually. > > I find it best to just nuke it. For 14 bucks or so you can order a > restore disk direct from HP. Actually less, but I needed next day > delivery. Then you can run "windows de-crapifier" to get rid of the > HP garbage. > Good Luck! > > --Manny > BTW, my wife has an HP laptop. I'm Linux ONLY, on my boxes ;-) > > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Actually, I'm referring to that partition that HP makes that is the > restore > > partition. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:20:18 -0800 > > Subject: [LinuxUsers] Saving windows HP restore partition > > > > As I said, I am reinstalling windows on my friends HP pavilion ze5700 > > and I'm going to put Hardy Heron on the Master boot sector. > > Yeah, I know how to do that. I figured out a little voodoo myself. > > To you guys that may be nothing special. > > Yeah, and I will upgrade if the upgrade is already released. > > > > I want to save the restore file on my friends HP. I know it is really > trash, > > but just so he won't be unhappy, since he doesn't really know what it is, > > I will save it for him. > > > > but I need to know what it is called. I am running knoppix 4.0 on a live > cd, > > and I am looking in konqueror. I see a file that looks like a disk with > the > > center cut > > out like a donut, and it has gears like on the outer diameter. there are > > actually two. > > one is called WDSyncV6.exe, and the other is called WindowsXP-. There is > a > > third file, > > it is called WDSyncV6.zip.... Are these the three files that I want to > save? > > > > Thanks > > > > ________________________________ > > Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows > Live > > Click here > > ________________________________ > > See how Windows(R) connects the people, information, and fun that are > part of > > your life Click here > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
